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Please note: this registration page is for delegates intending to attend Fear 2000 as an observer. If you have been accepted to the event as a speaker, please click here.

Fear 2000: Horror Media Now is an international conference being held at Sheffield Hallam University on 6-7 April 2018, focused on horror media since 2010.

One of the key aims of the Fear 2000 conference series has been to investigate developments at the cutting edge of horror. For example, Steffen Hantke’s keynote address at last year’s event asked whether the dominant monster of the 2010s will reveal itself to be the robot, a technological horror to replace the faithful zombie. Meanwhile, 2017 has seen horror surge back to the forefront of popular culture amidst barnstorming box-office triumphs for the likes of Get Out and It, the continued success of Stranger Things, celebrations of Stephen King on screen, and popular debates around the changing face of the genre (the Guardian alone has published high-profile ruminations on so-called “post-horror” and the return of torture porn in the wake of Jigsaw).

The popular resurgence of the horror genre has occurred in tandem with a number of unprecedented political, cultural and industrial shifts. Has horror re-entered the mainstream due to a rise in popular conservatism, for example, as it did in the 1950s and 1980s? And what of the current obsession with recalling those decades through their cultural touchstones; are we hungry for nostalgia, or are we witnessing a more complex critical engagement with the horror of decades past? Or is horror thriving due to the proliferation of dedicated genre festivals and the explosion of streaming services – like Netflix and Shudder – that give a platform to films that might otherwise have never found an audience? And perhaps it is due to these new distribution and exhibition networks that, now more than ever, horror is giving voice to the marginalised; the likes of Desierto, Get Out and The Transfiguration have explored the horror of oppression at a time when race relations are at the forefront of the global consciousness, while Raw, Prevenge, M.F.A. and Most Beautiful Island have reclaimed the horror genre as a site for narratives about and made by women.

Fear 2000: Horror Media Now will investigate contemporary horror using a range of approaches and attempt to form a picture of the genre’s present and future.